Mediating Environmental Change

James Painter is currently head of the Journalism Fellowship Programme at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford. Before that, he worked for several years at the BBC World Service in various capacities including Americas Executive editor, head of the Spanish American Service and head of the BBC Miami office. James [...]

Rupert Read is Reader in Philosophy at UEA (Norwich), where he works closely with environmental scientists, in eco-philosophy. His publications include his popular book, ‘Philosophy for Life: applying philosophy in politics and culture’. Rupert is also a Green Party Councillor, and helped write the Green 2009 Euro-election manifesto. He blogs on environmental reframing at greenwordsworkshop.org [...]

In order to minimise the environmental impact of our conference, we have decided to offer a vegetarian buffet lunch as outlined below. For our catering we use Chartwells, which is part of the Compass-Group. Their current responsible sourcing policy is available online, but we have been assured that all produce is sourced locally or in accordance [...]

Following a review of all submitted abstracts, we have agreed on the following contributions. These are currently organised into draft panels, to give a sense of conference focus. This is subject to change and the final programme and schedule will be announced in due course. We are currently confirming with keynote speakers and will announce [...]

Please note that the submission of abstracts to the Mediating Environmental Change: Exploring the Way Forward symposium has now closed. We have started reviewing abstracts and will notify authors of our decision by the end of the week. Many thanks to everyone who has submitted their abstract. We have received lots of really exciting proposals [...]

Please note that due to the MeCCSA conference taking place this week, we have agreed to extend the deadline for submissions to the MEC2011 symposium. The deadline for abstract submissions is now Monday 17 January 2011. Please submit abstracts of no more than 150 words by Monday 17 January, 2011 using the online form or [...]

The MeCCSA Climate Change, Environment and Sustainability Network is hosting a panel at the 2011 Annual MeCCSA Conference, 12-14th January at Salford. Our panel Media and Climate Change is scheduled for Friday 14th January at 13:30 – 15:00 in Studio 3, with the following lineup: Chair: Muhammad Shabir Khan Mass media role for climate change [...]

Friday 4 March, 2011 Symposium organised by the Centre for Journalism and Communication Research and Centre for the Green Knowledge Economy at The Media School, Bournemouth University In collaboration with the MeCCSA Climate Change, Environment and Sustainability Network The Mediating Environmental Change symposium will facilitate a debate on emerging and established forms and practices of environmental reporting – [...]

The MeCCSA Climate Change, Environment and Sustainability Network was officially launched in 2010, in response to members’ concerns about co-ordinating research and other activities relating to these pressing issues. Below are the original aims and objectives that were put forward for the network.